§ MR. JAMES ROWLANDS (Finsbury, E.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the Department has received numerous complaints from business houses respecting the conditions laid down in the Post Office Guide, page 27, for the return of inclosed post cards and invoices, &c.; and whether he can see his way to remove the complaints that have been made against the present arrangements?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. ARNOLD MORLEY, Nottingham, E.)The complaints from business houses of the new regulations for the return of undelivered post cards, invoices, &c., had not been numerous. It takes time for regulations of this kind to become fully known, although previous notices are issued by the Department; but the inconvenience which has arisen from senders being unaware of the change is diminishing day by day. The regulations affect only 721 packets prepaid ½d., and such packets being in themselves unremunerative, it is only reasonable that senders should pay the cost of returning any which they desire to recover in case of their non-delivery.